HEADLAND, Ala. – Suspected tornadoes killed at least two people as severe weather blasted a wide area across the Deep South, officials said.
Jerry Oliver Williams, 61, of Henry County died when the storm struck a rural area about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Coroner Derek Wright said Monday.
The area was under a tornado warning when winds flipped the home Williams shared with his wife and child, Wright said. “He was in a mobile home, and the mobile home was destroyed by a tornado.
He was in the wreckage of the mobile home. His wife and child were with him, and they were OK,” said Wright. A suspected twister also resulted in one death in Marion County, Mississippi, officials there said.